Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
Five new technology predictions for the next decade – Rodney Brooks
Stretch Goals - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42
Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.
Books - Robert Poynton
Why I write I write to synthesise what I have learned. The books also operate as search algorithms, bringing me into contact with interesting people from all over the world. Since most of my work is intangible, it’s also nice to have made something solid. I love the fact that once a book is finished,
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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
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As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…
Retool State of AI Report 2023
What models, infra, and apps are devs using and loving? What are AI's real production use cases? Get insights on AI sentiment, adoption, and tooling in the report.
China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals
Chinese companies and government agencies race to adopt DeepSeek’s homegrown AI model as Beijing pushes for global tech dominance. Some warn of overreliance.
The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs
DIY EV retrofits can be much cheaper than buying a new Tesla, but experts worry about battery safety.
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance
OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning | MyShell AI
Discover OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning technology that replicates voices from short audio clips. Supports multiple languages, emotion and accent control, and cross-lingual cloning. Efficient and cost-effective, outperforming commercial APIs. Explore the future of AI voice synthesis.
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Wind and solar power half the cost of coal and gas, one-third the cost of nuclear, says Lazard
Latest levelised cost of energy report from US investment firm Lazard finds large-scale solar and wind significantly cheaper than coal and gas. Nuclear, meanwhile, just keeps getting more expensive.
ReFiBuy | AI product data optimization
ReFiBuy is the AI-native retail platform for agentic commerce offering SKU-level product data optimization and closed-loop AI for retailers.
Stephen Wolfram Is Ready To Be Surprised by AI
Can artificial intelligence overhaul the regulatory system?
Nearly Half of All Masters Degrees Aren't Worth Getting
According to new research, 23 percent of bachelor's degree programs and 43 percent of master's degree programs have a negative ROI.
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Built for Turbulence: The Practitioner’s Library
This is free. Seriously. Get exclusive early access to chapters, frameworks, and insights as we build the antifragility playbook – starting with your free ch...
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Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up'
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.
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Want to spot a deepfake? Look for the stars in their eyes
In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures – particularly
deepfakes...
The World Trade Center Under Construction Through Fascinating Photos, 1966-1979 - Rare Historical Photos
The World Trade Center project was initiated in the early 1960s through the influence of David Rockefeller in part to reclaim a part of the city that had fallen on hard times. The vision was meant …
Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer)
Rich countries consume much higher quantities via higher intensity/tech. It's NOT high and rising: wages, profits, administration, encounters, etc. Income well explains American behavior here too.
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